Badge fastener



June 9, 1925.

M. FQLKMAN BADGE FASTENER Filep'i Aug. 22, 1924 I WNVENTOR. MA%

BY a2 ATTORNEY.

Patented June 9, 1925.

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ounts FOLKMAN, or CLEVELAND, onto, assrenon or ONE-HALE To JOSEPH EOLKMAN, or

CLEVELAND, OHIO.

' BADGE 'FASTENER.

- Application filed August 22, 1924.

T all-whom it may concern:

3e it known that I, Mounts FOLKMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing. at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyah'oga ant Statevof Ohio have invented certain new and useful improvements in Badge Fasteners, of which the following is a specification This invention relates to improvements in badge fasteners, the primary object being to provide a simple and inexpensively constructed device which will reliably retain a badge or the like upon an article of wearing apparel.

Another object is to provide a fastener of this character in which the locking bar or bodkin serves the double function of guiding the fastener through a button hole or the like, and thereafter serving to retain the fastener in the button hole;

It is likewise an object of this invention to provide a fastener including a pivoted paw which co-acts with other members to frictionally retain the locking bar in operative osition. i

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out hereinafter, 1

In order that the invention and its mode of operation may be readily understood by persons skilled in the art, I have in the accompanying illustrative drawings, and in the following detailed description based thereon set out one possible embodiment of the same.

Figure 1 vided with ance with my shown in locked Figure 2 is a view, the locking bar locked position;

Figure 3 is a rear elevation of the device as shown in Figure 1, and

Figure 1 is a detail perspective view of the fastener.

Having more particular reference to the drawings throughout which similar characters of reference designate similar parts, this improved badge fastener may be stated as comprising a channeled body portion 5 which may be welded or otherwise securec to the back of a badge B. The free or outer end of the body portion is substantially inverted U shape, thereby providing an openin or slot 6 through whichthe bodkin or locizing bar '1' swings during the period of is a side elevation of a badge proa fastener constructed in accord invention, the parts being position;

central vertical sectional being shown in unseen that Serial No. 733,562.

shifting from one position to another, will be hereinafter described. The base 8 of the body portion 5 is provided at free end with a transverse slot 9 having communication with the first named passage-way or slot (5 and designed to co-act with said passage-way in the accommodation of the locking baror bodkin 7.

The vertical side walls 10 of the body portion 5 are provided adjacent the outer or free ends with a pair of transversely alined notches 11 which serve as bearings for the opposed iingersor pintles 12 formed, integrally with the upper end of the bar or bodkin 7. This structure prevents removal of the locking bar from the body portion 5 and providesfor the swinging of the bar at a definite point. The other end of the locking bar 7 is provided with an enlarged head 13 which co-acts with the aforementioned pintles 12 to positively retain the bar against removal. By reference to Figure 2 it will b( the formation of the slot 9 in the lower 21 its outer ll 8 of the body portion results n the provision of a shoulder or stop 1a which co-actsi with another stop or shoulder 15 which is provided at the upper outer side 0 the transversely hes 11.

alined notc These stops or shoulders 1e and 15 are relatively off-set horizontally a distance substantially the thickness of the locking bar or bodkin 7, so that when the several parts are arranged in locked position, said bar will be substantially in parallel relation with respect to the badge B, this idea being illustrated in Figure 1 of the drawings.

In order to retain the locking bar or bodkin 7 in locked position and in snug engagement with the two stops or shoulders 14k and 15, I pivotally mount within the channeled body 5 a pawl 16 upon a transverse pin 1' as shown in Figures 2 and i. This pawl 16 includes a biting tooth or jaw 18 which is spaced slightly above the upper stop or shoulder 15 and is adapted to snugly contact with the face of the bar adjacent the badge B.

In attaching a badge to an article of wearing apparel, the badge being provided with a fastener of the character herein described, the locking bar or bodkin 7 is posi' tioned as illustrated in Figure 2, this position permitting its use as threading device by means of which the fastener body 5 is guided into a button hole or the like wherein equal to it is to be held. Upon completion of this step the bar is swung on the pintle 12 to the full line position shown in Figure 2, at which point the actual locking operation is started. The bar is moved in substantially parallel relation with respect to the badge the result being that the pawl 16 is slightly turned on its pivot pin 17 and since the structure is such that the extent of turning of this pawl would not permit free passage of the bar over the jaw or tooth 18, the neck 19 which connects the jaw and pawl is designed to yield slightly. This yielding obviously provides for the exertion of considerable pressure upon the locking bar 7 by the jaw or tooth 18, with the result that the bar is snugly gripped at three longitudinally spaced points. It is quite apparent that accidental movement or unlocking of the device is practically impossible.

Manifestly, the construction shown is capable of certain modification and such modification may fall within the scope of my claims, I consider within the spirit oi. my invention.

I claim:

1. In a fastener for badges or the like, a body portion arranged upon the back of the badge and having a pair of relatively off-set shoulders and an opening between the shoulders, a locking bar slidable between the shoulders, a pivoted pawl carried by the body, and a jaw on the pawl to frictionally engage the locking bar and eoact with the shoulders to hold it against movement.

2. In a fastener for badges or the like, a body portion arranged upon the back of the badge and having a pair of inter-communieating slots in its bottom wall and outer end wall to form spaced shoulders, a pivoted pawl arranged upon the body inwardly from the shoulders, and a locking bar slidable through the slots and adapted to frictionally engage the shoulders and pawl at relatively staggered points.

3. In a fastener for badges or the like, a body portion arranged upon the back and having a pair of inter-co1nn1unieating slots in its bottom wall and outer end wall to form spaced shoulders, a pivoted pawl arranged upon the body inwardly from the shoulders, said body having a pair of transversely alined notches between the pawl and said shoulders, a locking bar slidable through the slots and friotionally engageable with the pawl and shoulders,

tioned in 4. In a the like, a back of the g a pair of intercommunieating slots in its bottom wall and outer end wall, to form spaced shoulders, said body having a channel communicating with the slots, a pivoted pawl arranged in said channel inwardly from the shoulders, said body having a pair of transversely alined notches between the pawl and said shoulders, a locking bar slidable through the slots and frietion ally engageable with the pawl and shoulders, and pintles carried by the bar and adapted to be positioned in said notches at certain times.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

' MORRIS FOLKMAN. 

